Shortly to become very useful if you live in the UK.

Dazzle camouflage for faces. I’ve been thinking about this possibility for a while.

‘This stuff is a big deal. If a user doesn’t want some superficial Kanye West app to read and download all of her private direct messages, she should be able to expressly restrict that. The same goes for apps tweeting from her account.’

‘A browser extension that stops major third parties and search engines
from tracking the webpages you go to and searches you do.’

Not new, but still outrageous.

SEOne venue (used by Torture Garden) required by licensing conditions to record and store ID details of attendees. Now, there’s nothing illegal about visiting a fetish club night, but it’s the kind of thing you might want to keep private.

‘It was only when some neighbours [...] wrote to [the Standards Commissioner ...] that he agreed to open an inquiry.’

Because she wants to read all our emails.

Brilliant!

Or: why you might not want to make Chrome your porn browser.

Facecrime!

Another disposable email service.

I love it!

Anyone who still believes 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' is a moron. Government agencies aren't competent enough to be trusted with our information.

I won't visit the US for this reason. Now I can't go to Japan either?

The phish'n'spam technique used by Facebook et al is a bad idea.

Research into the likelihood of P2P activity being tracked by The Man.

That’s what you get for running a third-rate operating system from a convicted monopolist.

All a bit creepy.

Something I’ve been thinking about myself.

You might want to log out of Google services until they fix this.

‘Free anonymous phone numbers for inbound calls.’

Student visited by the Feds for trying to borrow a copy of Mao’s little red book. How’s that Land of the Free thing working out?

Bruce Scheier is right again.

I'm going to strangle the next person to say "post 9/11" as an excuse for their repressive agenda.

Guardian Money takes a somewhat disparaging look at loyalty cards